Originally Posted by
DrTITO
http:///forum/post/2813604
Luner wrassel ate my C.U.C. so I currently do not have a clean up crew and wanted to get snails and shrimp. I have a 125 reef with a few tangs(2 naso 1 yellow), a school of green cromes, and a damsel.
Also 1 starfish and some flat crab that picks at all the rock work for anything.(worms i guess).
What shrimp and snails should I get? and how many?
Dude... you're gonna have to ditch that Lunar Wrasse if you want a CUC, that's why they do, eat inverts LOL...
You'd need something like a black long spined urchin or something or try a few abalones ($20 a pop though...but effective) since they come out at night to eat algae while the wrasse is asleep. Any shrimp will most definitely get owned by the wrasse. Try also looking into a turf scrubber as that will grow algae in one location in the tank (look in the reef section for santa monica's thread on the mega nitrate&phosphate remover.) Some sponges might not hurt either in combination with the scrubber as they'll filter feed out excess food and organics in the water, but they don't tolerate inorganics (the testable nitrates and phosphates.)
